Critical Content and Skills

Content Area: Art & Music

Students will know...	Formative Assessment	Students will be able to...	Product Summative Assessment
1. Students will know that artwork and artifacts created during this time period are representative of feelings and emotions exhibited by people involved in the Holocaust.	Analyzing Photographs and other artifacts for meaning.	1. Explain: Students will be able to express the feelings and emotions that are exhibited throughout artwork and artifacts created by people affected by the Holocaust.	Panaramio - Collection of photos that are the students' and from the program that represent feelings and emotions
2. Students will know that musical productions and artistic representations hold true, sometime underlying meanings.	Musical Selections	2. Interpret: Students will be able to make meaning of the artwork and musical pieces created during the time of the Holocaust.	Blog - Responses to the artwork and musical selections
3. Students will know how to represent emotions through artistic and musical pieces.	Analyzing musical compositions	3. Apply: Students will be able to create meaningful pieces of art or music that represent the emotional and physical struggles occurring during the Holocaust.	Garageband - Creating a music piece that represents emotional and physical struggles
4. Students will know what characteristics in artwork or music are telling of different positions in the Holocaust and the war.	General Compare/Contrast with Artifacts	4. Perspective: Students will be able to effectively compare artifacts from different parties active during the war and reveal their similarities and differences.	Museum Box - Comparing artifacts by using this program to group together different files (pictures, videos, etc.)
5. Students will know the struggles and difficulty that the people experiencing the Holocaust were facing physically and emotionally.	Outlines for podcast and/or storyline	5. Empathy: Students will be able to imagine themselves as a part of the struggling people during the Holocaust.	Podcast - Creating a podcast
6. Students will know that this war, including the Holocaust, had lasting and telling affects on the development of the world that continue to be felt today.	Drawing Journal and Reflections	6. Self Knowledge: Students will be able to continue to be aware of the repercussions of this war that are still present today.	Digital Product displaying and explaining artwork from the full unit. (Capzles, iMovie, Wikispace, Museum Box, etc.)

Formative

Q - Quizzes
WS - Work Sample
SA - Self Assessment
P - Prompts
O - Observation
D - Dialogues

Product - Summative

CL- Comic Life
IM - Imovie
B - Blog
PC - Podcast
W - Wikispace
G - Glogster